Lipless Cranks?

[Dark Cloud]

Anyone ever throw these for eyes. I have been doing well on eyes at night on our local river. It is mostly a 1/4 and 1/8th oz jig bite, tipped with 3-4 inch plastics. This year im doing better on smaller 2 inch plastics so I got to thinkin and doug up a rat-l-trap "tiny trap". It has been producing well the last few nights. I picked a few more plus some of the smallest rapala brand ones. When the river drops a tad more I can get fish on traditional stick baits but these have filled a nitch and swim well over the rocks. Im sure they would be killer on the lakes when the eyes get rootin around new weeds eating young of the year panfish.

[zepman]

One of my favorite year around baits for walleyes in less than 5 ft. of water.

[tunrevir]

Yep, I love the rattle raps for burning along the edges of weedlines in lakes and the shallows. Also is a great bait for searching on rivers as well. You can even work them vertical in deep water which can be a real hoot when the fish are aggressive!

Tunrevir~

[PerchJerker]

I catch walleyes on them quite a bit ..... plus just about every other kind of fish in the lake too. They are an awesome multi-species and search bait. I never seem to use them when I am targeting walleyes, but I throw them a lot knowing that there's a chance I'll pick up a walleye on them.

[TDH]

I use the rattling rapalas and have had great success. I usually use the #4 and troll them in the 5-15 foot range.

[Dark Cloud]

I hit the river again tonight for a few hours. Picked up about 15 eyes. Half on jigs n plastics and the others on a tiny trap or the rapala size 4 rattlin rap.

[Finlander]

A few years back in the early summer I was fishing Osakis in the tall pencil reeds fishing the opening and pathways that string thru those weeds fishing for bluegills. Then here comes some guy fishing for bass with a rattle trap and as he passed by I saw him catch walleyes on that lure and he looks at me and complains those dang walleyes keep hitting instead of the bass!

They don't bite like that all the time, but you have to try it and see!

Never tried night time in those weeds with a rattle trap, maybe this year!

[Chode2235]

I used them on the ice a bit this winter for jigging and had decent success with them. I should try it out on the open water, thanks for the tip.

[Ed Carlson]

Lip-less cranks are very versatile walleye tools. They offer the characteristics of a jig with the larger profile of a crankbait.

From pitching them, vertical jigging them (Cold Fronts), to even trolling them they often do well on post spawn dispersed walleye on rivers and lakes.

I'm very fond of the Salmo Zipper for most lip-less crankbait situations. A tip I have is try trolling them on breaks at post spawn.

The speed is often dictated by water temp, faster in warmer, slower in colder. They do well with early emergent weeds as they often deflect them due to the way the bait tends to run.

A pump and fade trolling pattern can be deadly to stimulate lookers. They can be a very good method to locate fish, and then slow down and fish them more specifically on the newly found fish holding structure.